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until the said
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Robert Clemments
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became a
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from which time until the
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Completion of the said Contract Your Petitioner executed and performed the same on his own
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separate Account and as he believes to the Satisfaction of the said Magistrates of the said
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County of
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and of their Surveyor Mr. Gwilt.
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That your Petitioner and the said
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Robert Clemments
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contracted for the during of the
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said Masons work at a very low Price and according to the then price of labour and the
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materials to be used there in but soon afterwards the present war with France broke out
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which not only entrained the price of both but increased the Expence of Freightage of the
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letter very considerably
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That your Petitioner was not only subjected to such Lisses by the means aforesaid
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but he was also put to very considerable Expences in the made of completing the said
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Contract by the Directions of the said Surveyor but all of which your Petitioner patiently
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submitted to in full Confidence that Satisfaction would be made him for the same when
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the said Contract should be fully completed.
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That soon after the Completion of the said Contract you Petitioner received the
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Balance of his Accounts as stated and settled by the said Surveyor and there upon as
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upon all other Occasions when he received Money on Account of the said Contract he
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signed such Receipt for the same as the said Surveyor thought proper to prepare and
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without signing of which he could not have received such Monies
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That your Petitioner and the other Tradesman employed in the Building of the
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said Goal finding themselves considerably injured applied to the said Magistrates of Surry
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by Petition praying for redress in the premises and who from a Consciousness of the Justice
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and propriety of such application referred it to the said Surveyor to enquire into and report
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to them the Amount of the Losses of each Tradesman employed in the said Building and
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who made such Inquiry and Report accordingly but which report so far as the same respected
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your Petitioner and his losses was untrue and malicious as will appear from the most
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respectable testimony and from the very Repeat itself.
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That in Consequence of the said Report the Sum of one hundred Pounds only was
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ordered to be paid to your Petitioner as a Compensation for his losses.
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That your Petitioner conceiving himself to be aggrieved by the said Report applied
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by Memorial to the said Magistrates for Surry and who were pleased to take the same into
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their Consideration and on the Seventy fifth of April last at an Meeting held at
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Union
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Hall Southwark
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to come to following Resolution and make the following Order that is to say
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"Resolved that it is the opinion of this Committee that whatever less Mr Francis
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"can prove that he has sustained on account of extra Freightage and which shall appear
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"to the Committtee not to have been occasioned by his own neglect shall be made to him
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"Ordered that Mr Gwelt be directed to prepare a Statement of the Extra Freightage
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"on the Carriage of
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and other Stone which arose in Consequence of she was and the necessary
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directed to prepare a like Statement of such extra Freightage and Expences consequently thereof
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That at a Meeting
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of the said Magistrates held on the Twenty ninth of May
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last Your Petitioner attended with a Statement of his said Sofres and Witnesses to prove
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the same in pursuance of the said Resolution
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and Order for that purpose But
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notwithstanding your Petitioner was put to very considerable Expences with his said
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witnesses the Magistrates present at such last mentioned Meeting refused to hear them of to
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